Albert Huybrechts

Belgian composer, born in Dinant, February 12, 1899, died in Brussels, February 21, 1938. He was the son of double bassist Joseph-Jacques Huybrechts. Huybrechts studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included Joseph Jongen and Ernest Closson. He was originally going to be an oboist, but turned to composition. On the border between 1937 and 1938 he was appointed by Jean Absil as a teacher at the said conservatory. He died of kidney failure.